There are two important aspects of the problem that we seek to solve. Non-equilibrium transport is a generic formulation of any quasi-particle transport phenomena. As a result, to understand transport in the nanometer scale, for example, in a solar cell where electrons and holes are propagating or in a thermoelectric device where a phonon is propagating or a solid state lighting device where one needs to worry about photon propagation, the same Non Equilibrium formalism will be necessary. Thus the simulation platform that we are developing will be a general one that can be applied to a diverse set of problems.

If successful, this will be the first calculation of electronic transport in presence of lattice vibrations in realistically sized devices including atomistic detail.